Harper Valley PTA Report

Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Thu Jan 30 08:54:13 CST 1997


David Casseres <casseres at apple.com> writes:

> My perverse habit of reading far ahead of the current GRGR section had me
> reading the "Anubis" section, with its orgies and pedophilia, just as the wave
> of debate about pornography crested.  Now that it's receded a bit, here's my 2 
> cents' worth, as a penance for having brought up Larry Flynt in the first place
> (though it was Craig who brought up pornography).

...er, seem to recall that it was that Kerneels Breytenbach who did 
that, raising the issue of the banning of _GR_ in SA on the grounds 
of obscenity. I just chipped in with amusing anecdotes about trying to 
write an MA with a book I had to keep under lock and key...



Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"



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